Youth Mind Health
Main content
The research in Child and Adolescent psychiatry at the University of Bergen is singular in the world, with four merited professors, corresponding to probably the highest per capita academic competence in the world within the field of child psychiatry. The group has secured two NFR projects in 2023 as main (#1 Bjelland) and co-applicant (#2 Posserud).
Research in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at UiB has had a formidable development in the last 10-year period. The overall trend within the department at UiB has been a large overall reduction in main faculty positions reducing the teaching and research staff considerably. Child and adolescent psychiatry has managed to establish two clinical Professor I in 50% positions (in 2019 and in 2023).
Projects
There are several innovation projects including “Tjenester på Tvers”, the dialogue-based early detection and parenting programmes. The group and the research herein contributes to the UN Sustainable Development Goals 1,3,4,5,8,10 and 11.
Members
The group houses a unique combination of competence in developmental psychiatry, psychiatric epidemiology, and intervention research, as well as an extensive national and international collaboration. The group will continue using this productive and fertile combination to further develop and foment our developmentally appropriate intervention research in youth mental health. The group consists of two 50% professors (Posserud and Wergeland) and two 20% professors (Bjelland and Elgen). The group is currently supervising more than 10 PhD students.
Network and Collaboration
The group is highly productive and has a wide national, international and societal network. The activity is highly relevant to and interlinked with the development and demands of the society, as exemplified by projects addressing diverse and societally deeply relevant projects such as the effects of the pandemic, the child premise within criminal justice, sleep, somatic health and neurodevelopmental problems. The section both leads and contributes to national and international treatment guidelines, professional and interest associations.
The group collaborates with internationally leading researchers in the fields of neuropsychiatry, music therapy, criminal law and intervention research, sleep, behavioural therapy and anxiety disorders.
Our main collaboration partners (national/international level): Westpaed research (pediatric), Gillberg Neuropsychiatry Centre (Sweden), NORCE, NTNU, Innlandet Hospital Trust, Faculty of Law UiB, University of Aberdeen, (UK), University of Edinburgh (UK), University of Strathclyde, UK, Yale School of Medicine (USA).
Publications
Cristin: Maj-Britt Rocio Posserud
Cristin: Gro Janne Henningsen Wergeland
Recent level 2 publications from Youth Mind Health:
Wergeland GJH, Haaland ÅT, Fjermestad KW, Öst LG, Gjestad R, Bjaastad JF, Hoffart A, Husabo E, Raknes S, Haugland BSM. Predictors of school-based cognitive behavior therapy outcome for youth with anxiety. Behav Res Ther. 2023 Oct;169:104400. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2023.104400. Epub 2023 Sep 1. PMID: 37690362.
Elgen SKF, Røiseland MA, Bircow EI, Vollsæter M, Hysing M. Symptoms and antecedents of autism in children born extremely premature: a national population-based study. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2023 Sep;32(9):1579-1588. doi: 10.1007/s00787-022-01953-4. Epub 2022 Mar 10. Erratum in: Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2022 Jun 21;: PMID: 35267101; PMCID: PMC10460365.
Haugland BSM, Haaland ÅT, Baste V, Bjaastad JF, Hoffart A, Rapee RM, Raknes S, Himle JA, Husabø E, Wergeland GJ. Effectiveness of Brief and Standard School-Based Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions for Adolescents With Anxiety: A Randomized Noninferiority Study. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2020 Apr;59(4):552-564.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2019.12.003. Epub 2020 Jan 8. PMID: 31926224.
Posserud MB, Skretting Solberg B, Engeland A, Haavik J, Klungsøyr K. Male to female ratios in autism spectrum disorders by age, intellectual disability and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Acta Psychiatr Scand. 2021 Dec;144(6):635-646. doi: 10.1111/acps.13368. Epub 2021 Sep 20. PMID: 34494265.
Chaulagain A, Lyhmann I, Halmøy A, Widding-Havneraas T, Nyttingnes O, Bjelland I, Mykletun A. A systematic meta-review of systematic reviews on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Eur Psychiatry. 2023 Nov 17;66(1):e90. doi: 10.1192/j.eurpsy.2023.2451. PMID: 37974470; PMCID: PMC10755583.
